Slovene traditional carnival figures called kurenti or koranti, native to northeastern parts of Slovenia, date back centuries and are an important part of Slovene national heritage. Traditionally, korants would visit homesteads in villages. Their arrival would announce the end of the winter and beginning of the new life in springtime as well as bestow good luck on households they visited.

Korants jump with a girl during The International Carnival Parade in Ptuj. During the Parade korants continuously choose girls watching the Parade, bring them into the parade and then jump with them. Afterwards girls tie handkerchiefs on their ježevka, a wooden bat with hedgehog spikes that korants used to use as a weapon.

Korants enter Slovene national parliament in the capital Ljubljana. Every year, a group of korants visits the parliament to bring good fortune to politicians and to secure pledges of government support for festivities in the northeast of the country.

On the last day of the carnival period, the Carnival mask is burned and buried. After a long day of visiting homesteads, members of The Ethnographic Society Plowers Leskovec gathered at their headquarters, brought a Carnival dummy to the courtyard and set it on fire. The Carnival period was over, spring was around the corner.